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pscion

Somewhere Out There

Jan 25, 2007 15:44

Now, I'm a believer. That's not to say I'm not skeptical, but I believe beyond the shadow of a doubt, that there exists life elsewhere in the universe. To me, it just doesn't make sense otherwise. The way I see it, there are two options:

GODIf God created the universe, why would he make it so big, if it's dedicated to us? We're far too intelligent ( Read more... )

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jokermage January 25 2007, 20:46:48 UTC

Long time no see!

You might find this interesting if
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ztl8CG3Sys

The basic answer to "Where are the aliens?" is "Why would they be here?"

We've only be broadcasting for a century, no one has probably noticed us yet.

pscion January 25 2007, 23:02:57 UTC

Very interesting. I'd never heard of the Drake equation before...

Definitely something to think about.

draemorticus January 26 2007, 01:03:26 UTC

I totally agree.

101 percents! (the extra 1% is for enthusiasm!)

brawi January 26 2007, 03:52:17 UTC

I'm on board too! I wouldn't say I'm a believer as such, but even subscribing to both those theories, there's no way to rule it out! Who knows, an omnipotent God who can deal with 5 billion people could certainly handle a couple other planets. Or infinte planets! The mind boggles!

Anyway, if they're therewhoever they are, I hope they don't Have A Plan =O

pscion January 26 2007, 14:50:16 UTC

Many... copies... Noooooooo!

spuddy42 January 26 2007, 03:59:00 UTC

I think the aliens are just really tiny, and we're squishing them, and blowing them away all the time without knowing.

pscion January 26 2007, 14:49:27 UTC

Oh, I know. Mwa ha ha ha haaa!

¬_¬

anonymous January 26 2007, 17:58:51 UTC

One big problem exists the with god-creationist-theory. In order for a being (or beings/entities/flying spaghetti monsters) to create a universe as large and complex as our own, that being would have to be immensely more complex that our own universe ( ... )

pscion January 29 2007, 14:21:00 UTC

One argument I've heard against evolution seemed to resound for me, however: Irreducible Complexity.

To summarize, it says that some biological systems, such as the eye, are so complex, that it would have taken hundreds of small parts all evolving simultaneously for the eye to come into existence. This, accordring to evolution, is inherently impossible, for one reason: Any redundant or useless parts will evolve into nothingness, being slowly removed from the organism over generations and generations. Therefore, the hundreds of tiny parts of the eye, which all would have had to evolve at the same time (and yet are 100% useless to the body on their own), would have been weeded out of the system in ages past.

The traditional comparison is that the odds of all the tiny parts in the eye evolving in perfect balance, only just squeaking past evolution's natural selection, to develop the fully-functional eye as it is today, are about the same as a tornado hitting a junkyard and assembling a fully-functional 747 airplane, fully-fueled, and ( ... )

anonymous January 29 2007, 21:47:07 UTC

Well, it's been found in nature that there have been varying stages of the eye existing in different lifeforms. Some, like humans and owl's, have really advanced eyes. Where other things, like small sea creatures or tiny bugs, can simply tell if they're in the presence of light or not, without the ability of really seeing anything. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye... )

anonymous January 29 2007, 21:53:31 UTC

"There's a reason why 90% of religious people believe in the same religion that their parents did."

That's a stat I've read somewhere. And it refers to the 90% of children who continue to practice religion after they grow up, not 90% of all children.

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silvyrdragon January 26 2007, 21:24:43 UTC

First of all. WOOT TO POSTING!!!

Second. I was thinking of all that alien business yesterday on my walk home. I was thinking, if I were abducted by aliens I would just be like 'why abduct, just make yourselves known to all! come down and say hello!' and then i realized that would probably be a very stupid idea. Because as much as individuals are smart...people on a whole are dumb and panicky and generally zenophobic. If aliens landed and made themselves known to the world, how would people react? Crazily. There'd be war. There'd be migration. There'd be hysteria. And of course there'd be a welcoming commitee. Whether that had large heat-seeking misiles in it, I dunno. But still.
I wonder if thats why no one has contacted us before? They know that we'd react like herded sheep?
Then we'd be prime for some evil doers to come anihilate us! Then maybe there's a whole cosmic police force trying to protect our innocence and our view of being lonely in the universe?
haha.
I think you should post that 'they're made of meat' conversation. ^_^

pscion January 29 2007, 14:23:25 UTC

Hehehe!

I agree, though; Think of the most drastically horrible reaction that could ever possibly happen, and chances are, to some extent, it WILL. That's the trouble with Humanity. Perhaps aliens just sneaking peaks at us and getting us so used to seeing them out of the corner of our eyes is their way of getting us used to their presence, so when they finally do show up and say, "Hi!", we'll be like, "Oh, it's just them. Hey, what's up."

Who knows!